Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-15
ON CHANGE.
Spot CcttOn Fractions LOWer-Fu,ures
Irregular, In Some Cases Higher, in
Others LoWer-M0ney Easy.
WheaU Opened Weak, EIuctuated Narrowly
and CLOSED at Decuns - Live
Stock TRANSACTIONS Br1sz.
Dolly ReyieH
GAzLTTG OFFICE,


FORT WORTH, TEN, July Is, Iss7.
Trade YES about Sn average to-day in
all lines.
Reports from tie rice crop are more
favorable end the boom looked for in
psIces Will probably not come.
Lemons still have an upward tendency.
TIE STATE or TRADE.
Special kilograms to Bradstreet's yes
terday show rather more than proper
ti0nate volume Cf general trade through
out the country, considering the inter
vention Of holiday, the hot weather
and midsummer season, win stock
takilg, sid the accompanying check
10 activity in industrial lines
As New York, Boston, Baltimore and
Phjl&delDhis leading staple markets are
quiet. Dry goods at eastern centers are
dull, boots and shoes fairly aCtive, ana
leather Is quiet. At Pitteburg general
trade IS faIr only, and prices firm. No
features are reported from Indiana and
Ono cities, FAN trading, however, has
DcgEn ut Detroit, and the movement Of
goods s better than one wear ago CHI
cago's volume OF transactions equals, ii
Ii does not exceed, the preceding week,
sld orders In leading lines are Increasing
noticeG5ly. At Quincy fali trade is open
ing and manufacturers are busy,
and st Burlington. lows, business
IS improving. st. Joseph reports the
situation satisfactory and better
than LAST year, though the volume is
smaller thsn g week ago, while Kansas
Ctty's trade movement is good, even
brisk IN staple lines, except in grain.
New Orleans and Galveston likewise send
favorable reports, due largely 20 favor
Gbie crop prospects.
Leading money markets are quite ac-
tive. New York reports less strirgency,
and rates normal, but Boston and Kansas
City bankers quote higher rates Cf dis
count, with demand exceeding available
supplies. The western demand for NOV
ing The crops has begun, but all lines OF
trade ar - borrowing more freely, notice
ably at Chicago. The advance Of New
York exchange at the west has been
feature.
The Intangible character CT the negoti-
atoms for the settlement of the telegraph
contest, and uncertainty IS to the inten-
tons Of leading individual factors con-
Cerningj that and other matters, aid in
producing dull and unsettled feeling in
The New York stock market; prices in the
absence Of support or interest tend TO
decline in spite of easier money.
The weeks bank c,Carings st thirty
eight cities, specially wired TO BrOd-
streets, aggregates Sg62, $50, GG4,
g decline of about p per
cent. from las: week, bat nearly IG
per cent. more than the CORE
spending week of 1886. The six months
total Of bank clearings, thirty cities, are
10 per cent. over 1856, - per cent. over
1885, and 81 per cent. over 1891. New
York's six months aggregate per cent.
over 1856, Al per cent. over 1885, but I!
per cent. less than in 1854, when over
trading and excessive speculation marked
the earlier hsf of the year. Leading
western cities, with heavy relative in
creased cieg-ings, mark the growth Of in
dustries aud jo5bing at the Interior
/ Bradstreet's.